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Engineering Management at University of Portsmouth - UCAS

Course summary

Overview Guide businesses effectively through the rapid changes in engineering technology, scientific development and management practice. On this MSc Engineering Management, you'll strengthen your skills and expertise so you can respond effectively to innovation across the engineering sector. You'll study management and engineering, focusing on the ways the disciplines can relate to each other, and learn to bridge the communication gap between engineers and managers. On the managerial side, you'll look at themes like supply chains and strategic management, and combine this with engineering topics including renewable energy use and system ability. By combining both aspects, you'll make yourself appealing to a broader range of senior roles in engineering and beyond. You'll work alongside expert lecturers and a truly international group of fellow students as you learn, drawing on live engineering sector issues from case studies and collaborating organisations, and can further specialise through a final project exploring an engineering challenge that matters to you. You'll graduate with the demonstrable ability to take your next step in a career in design, product systems or other engineering roles. You can start this course in September (full time or part time) or January (full time only). Eligibility This course accepts UK, EU, and international students. Course highlights

  • Develop an understanding of engineering management techniques, giving you the capability to take on technical and managerial roles within an environment of continual change
  • Use our multi-platform suites of industry-standard software and hardware, and develop your skills in tools such as Advanced Excel Modelling and Microsoft Project
  • Apply your expertise to real problems through partnerships with local and global organisations, and focus your Master's project on a current engineering management issue that matters to you
  • Attend guest lectures from managers in engineering companies, with past speakers from organisations including IBM and an international bioplastics firm
  • Study material resource use and recovery, learn how to minimise waste in manufacturing, and grasp the way management skills can support engineering goals
  • Graduate with an accredited degree that demonstrates your readiness for senior engineering roles
Accredited by: This course is accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) for meeting the further learning requirement for Chartered Engineer registration. Careers and opportunities You'll finish this course with an accredited degree, and complementary skills in engineering and management that show you're ready to respond to change in the rapidly-developing engineering sector. This means you'll be equipped for roles in engineering – or beyond – involving project management, quality assurance or production. You'll have a network of professionals drawn from your fellow students, lecturers, and their industrial contacts. You'll also have explored a professional aspect of engineering management in your project; previous examples of project topics include cost projections of going independent of the national grid with renewable power, and a cost/benefit analysis of setting up solar farms in Nigeria. Graduates of this course can go onto roles such as:
  • business operations specialist
  • project manager
  • production engineer
  • creative director
  • quality assurance engineer
  • production engineer
Graduates from similar courses have also set up successful businesses with help and support from the University. During your course you'll have expert career support from your tutors and our Careers and Employability Centre – which you can access for up to 5 years after you graduate.

Modules

On this course, you'll choose between a Master's project and a dissertation as your final piece of work. All other modules are core. Core

  • Information Technology and Strategic Management – 20 credits
  • Manufacturing System Design – 20 credits
  • Operations and Quality Management – 20 credits
  • Renewable Energy Management – 20 credits
  • Strategies for Resource and Environmental Management – 20 credits
  • Supply Chain Management – 20 credits
Optional
  • Individual Project (MSc) – 60 credits
  • Research Portfolio – 60 credits
We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry.

Assessment method

You'll be assessed through:

  • project work
  • written coursework
  • exams
You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
  • Engineering and Technology, Institution of
  • Accreditation of European Engineering Programmes (EUR-ACE)

Entry requirements

A second-class honours degree in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.


English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6.5English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0.
Cambridge English AdvancedCambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169.
Cambridge English ProficiencyCambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 169.
TOEFL (iBT)9191 with a minimum of 20 in Reading, 19 in Listening, 21 in Speaking and 20 in Writing.
PTE Academic61An overall score of 61 with a minimum of 54 in each skill.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £10400 Year 1
England £10400 Year 1
Northern Ireland £10400 Year 1
Scotland £10400 Year 1
Wales £10400 Year 1
Channel Islands £10400 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £10400 Year 1
International £19200 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
Engineering Management at University of Portsmouth - UCAS